Bases are about the representation of the number, not the number itself. That's why a baby can identify a group of six items despite not knowing about base 10 o

Bases are about the representation of the number, not the number itself. That's why a baby can identify a group of six items despite not knowing about base 10 or digits in general. For a more practical example, do you think the number twelve does not exist because it takes two digits to represent it?